Aerospace & Defence

Aitech Defense Systems is now offering a new rugged 6U VME Single Board Computer (SBC) that brings the powerful QorIQ T1042, or higher performance T2081, multi-core processor to embedded systems, significantly increasing previous generation computing capabilities. The C114 is backward compatible with Aitech’s popular earlier generation PPC-based C106 and C108 boards, while incorporating the NXP Secure Boot and Trust 2.0 Architectu...

  Manufacturer of connector solutions, Rosenberger has introduced a new connector series - SMP Infinity. The one-step locking mechanism of these very small connectors - 40% smaller than standard SMA screw types - and their low insertion force (≤45N) permit fast and easy connections.

To meet the needs of military and avionics applications, Vishay Intertechnology has introduced a high-energy wet tantalum capacitor that delivers what is claimed to be the industry's highest capacitance per voltage rating and case size for this device type. For increased design flexibility, the EP1 is available with radial through-hole or surface-mount terminations in the A, B, and C case codes, each with a stud mount option.

Electronic Specifier Editor Joe Bush caught up with LEMO Managing Director Peter Dent and Raymond Voillat, the company’s Group Sales and Marketing Director at the recent DSEI exhibition to discuss the company’s growing influence within the aerospace and defence market.

A reusable, water-powered Mars lander that will allow humans to explore the Red Planet from an orbiting 'base camp' as early as the 2030s was unveiled Friday by US defence giant Lockheed Martin. Governments and private firms are collaborating on projects to send humans to new frontiers, with NASA planning missions next decade into the space between Earth and the Moon to prepare for trips to Mars.

Global precision engineering company, Nasmyth Group will manufacture the Spacecraft Transport Container for Eurostar Neo, which is one of the two new satellite product lines of the European Space Agency’s Next Generation Platform, NEOSAT. The spacecraft transport container will house the crucial ‘clean room’, enabling its safe transportation by road, rail, sea or air whichever is deemed applicable.

  Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks – a form of artificial intelligence – can accurately analyse the complex distortions in spacetime known as gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods.

Seven Earth-sized exoplanets circle the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, just 40 light-years from our own blue planet. Now an international team of scientists at the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, MIT, and elsewhere, report that the outer planets in this system may still hold significant stores of water. Three of these potential water worlds are also considered within the habitable zone of the star, giving further support to the possibil...

Astronomers have measured magnetic fields in a galaxy 4.6 billion light-years away — a big clue to understanding how magnetic fields formed and evolved over cosmic time. In an article published in Nature Astronomy, a collaboration led by Sui Ann Mao, the Minerva Research Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and a former postdoctoral Jansky Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, reports the discover...

Unmanned equipment and technology systems are expanding into nearly all walks of our lives. We are developing new systems that can expand our reach and capabilities using remote controlled equipment. By Rory Jackson and Bob Stanton, Omnetics Connector Corporation.